Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libc

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 07:35:02PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> yamt@ wrote:
> 
> > > Module Name:      src
> > > Committed By:     dholland
> > > Date:             Fri Feb 24 16:06:39 UTC 2012
> > > 
> > > Modified Files:
> > >   src/lib/libc: shlib_version
> > > 
> > > Log Message:
> > > Note that gets() is finally dead in C11 and can be removed if we ever
> > > bump libc.
> > 
> > it doesn't sound good or realistic to me.
> 
> Indeed.  Can you please remove this entry?
> 
> Removing use of deprecated functions in NetBSD tree is the right thing,
> but it doesn't mean stopping C89/C99 support in NetBSD environment.
> Having __warn_references() for such functions is enough for users.

I disagree on this. gets(3) is actively harmful, so moving it into
libcompat sounds perfectly sane.

Joerg